Better Counterspells

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Better Counterspells

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $7.99

Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

Eluge's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Islands you control.
Whenever Eluge enters or attacks, put a flood counter on target land. It's an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it.
The first instant or sorcery spell you cast each turn costs

(or

) less to cast for each land you control with a flood counter on it.

Legendary Creature - Elemental Fish

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$7.99 $6.77

Commander

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Artifact

Qty: 1 Price: $1.99

Bender's Waterskin

Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step.

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

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$1.99 $0.94

Artifact

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Blink

Qty: 4 Price: $59.26

Displacer Kitten

Avoidance — Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, exile up to one target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Creature - Beast Cat

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$54.99 $38.96

Essence Flux

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If it's a Spirit, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Instant

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$2.49 $1.47

Splash Portal

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. If that creature is a Bird, Frog, Otter, or Rat, draw a card.

Sorcery

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$1.29 $0.37

Teferi's Time Twist

Exile target permanent you control. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. If it enters as a creature, it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Instant

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$0.49 $0.44

Blink

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Buyback

Qty: 7 Price: $17.99

Capsize

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant

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$0.79 $1.02

Clockspinning

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Choose a counter on target permanent or suspended card. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.

Instant

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$0.49 $0.41

Mind Games

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Tap target artifact, creature, or land.

Instant

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$0.35 $0.31

Mystic Speculation

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Scry 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

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$2.79 $6.19

Spell Burst

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell with mana value X.

Instant

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$0.59 $0.37

Whim of Volrath

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another until end of turn. (For example, you may change "nonred creature" to "nongreen creature" or "plainswalk" to "swampwalk.")

Instant

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$11.99 $6.61

Whispers of the Muse

Buyback

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Draw a card.

Instant

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$0.99 $0.43

Buyback

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Copy

Qty: 1 Price: $13.99

Irenicus's Vile Duplication

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except the token has flying and it isn't legendary.

Sorcery

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$13.99 $13.38

Copy

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Counterspells

Qty: 15 Price: $266.97

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

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$4.99 $2.15

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Instant

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$3.99 $2.20

Archmage's Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Instant

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$2.49 $1.42

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

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$3.49 $2.52

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

Instant

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$8.49 $6.58

Divert Disaster

Counter target spell unless its controller pays

. If they do, you create a Lander token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.")

Instant

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$0.35 $0.24

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant

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$64.99 $54.71

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

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$84.99 $69.55

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of

equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

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$74.99 $52.19

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays

.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Instant

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$1.29 $0.71

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant

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$0.99 $0.48

Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant

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$3.99 $2.17

Sublime Epiphany

Choose one or more —
• Counter target spell.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
• Target player draws a card.

Instant

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$0.59 $0.27

Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Counter target spell.
+

— Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control.
+

— Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant

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$10.99 $7.23

Unravel

Counter target spell. If the amount of mana spent to cast that spell was less than its mana value, you draw a card.

Instant

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$0.35 $0.11

Counterspells

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Draw

Qty: 6 Price: $15.80

Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

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$2.49 $1.26

Archmage of Runes

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature - Wizard Giant

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$6.49 $2.71

Blue Sun's Zenith

Target player draws X cards. Shuffle Blue Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.

Instant

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$4.49 $1.61

Flow of Ideas

Draw a card for each Island you control.

Sorcery

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$0.35 $0.31

Opt

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

Instant

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$0.49 $0.33

Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment - Fish Horse

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$1.49 $0.69

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

The Flood of Mars

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Water Always Wins — Whenever this creature attacks, put a flood counter on another target creature or land. If it's a creature, it becomes a copy of this creature. If it's a land, it becomes an Island in addition to its other types.

Creature - Horror Zombie Alien

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$0.59 $0.36

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $19.99

Expropriate

Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.

Sorcery

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$19.99 $16.31

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 23 Price: $167.53

Gemstone Caverns

If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.

: Add

. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Legendary Land

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$69.99 $47.55

Island

(

: Add

Basic Land - Island

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$0.49 $0.15

Lonely Sandbar

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

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$0.35 $0.25

Maze of Ith

: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land

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$13.99 $11.19

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

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$0.59 $0.28

Mystic Sanctuary

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Island

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$3.49 $4.02

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

: Add

: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Legendary Land

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$64.99 $56.22

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

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$5.49 $4.84

Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

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$1.29 $0.52

Land

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Protection

Qty: 1 Price: $9.49

Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Enchantment

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$9.49 $9.18

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 7 Price: $25.83

Aquitect's Will

Put a flood counter on target land. That land is an Island in addition to its other types for as long as it has a flood counter on it. If you control a Merfolk, draw a card.

Sorcery Kindred - Merfolk

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$0.59 $0.29

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

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$0.99 $0.56

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

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$5.49 $3.30

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional

Instant

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$1.49 $1.02

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

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$9.99 $5.48

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

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$2.29 $1.48

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

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$4.99 $2.76

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

Archaeomancer

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Human Wizard

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$1.29 $0.44

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 6 Price: $57.74

Aetherize

Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.

Instant

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$1.29 $0.35

Curse of the Swine

Exile X target creatures. For each creature exiled this way, its controller creates a 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Sorcery

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$0.49 $0.28

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

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$39.99 $41.26

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature - Horror Kraken

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$8.49 $5.99

Pongify

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Instant

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$2.99 $1.90

Snap

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Untap up to two lands.

Instant

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$4.49 $4.80

Removal

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Take another Turn

Qty: 2 Price: $29.98

Time Stretch

Target player takes two extra turns after this one.

Sorcery

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$5.99 $4.29

Time Warp

Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Sorcery

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$23.99 $13.85

Take another Turn

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Tokens

Qty: 3 Price: $6.97

Metallurgic Summonings

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.

, Exile this enchantment: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

Enchantment

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$2.99 $2.69

Shark Typhoon

Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, create an X/X blue Shark creature token with flying.

Enchantment

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$2.99 $1.01

Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk

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$0.99 $0.46

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck size: 80Est cost: $703.40

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.05Total Mana Value: 174.00

Quantity of

Artifact

Blink

Buyback

Commander

Copy

Counterspells

Creature

Draw

Enchantment

Evasion

Finisher

Instant

Land

Protection

Ramp

Recursion

Removal

Sorcery

Take another Turn

Tokens

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80 pips - 52 cards

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9 mana - 8 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.05Total Mana Value: 174.00

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Commander

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Creature

Draw

Enchantment

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Finisher

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Protection

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Take another Turn

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